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Revelation 13:1–14:20

The Beasts and the Everlasting Gospel

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The Beasts and the Everlasting Gospel

Revelation 13:1–14:20

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Revelation 13:1-14:20

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This song belongs to the Revelation collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

Bible book
Revelation
Collection
Revelation
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[Intro] The dragon waits upon the sand. The sea gives up a beast. [Verse 1] Seven heads, ten horns, a mouth of blasphemy; the dragon lends his throne and power. One wounded head appears healed, and wondering earth follows the beast. For forty-two months he speaks against heaven and makes war with the saints. [Interlude] [Verse 2] Another beast rises from the earth, two lamb-like horns, a dragon's voice. Fire falls at his deceiving sign; an image breathes and demands worship. A mark controls buying and selling, the number of a man: six hundred sixty-six. [Chorus] But on mount Sion stands the Lamb, one hundred forty-four thousand with his Father's name. They learn a new song before the throne, firstfruits who follow wherever he goes. [Verse 3] An angel bears the everlasting gospel: Fear God; the hour of judgment is come. Another cries, Babylon is fallen. A third warns all who take the mark. Here is the patience of the saints; blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. [Breakdown] The sickle sweeps the ripe earth. The vine is cast into the winepress; judgment runs beyond the city. [Outro] Beast, image, number,passing dominion. The Lamb remains on Sion.

Named in this songBabylon

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Revelation 13: Worship is demanded, displayed, and enforced

The dragon's earthly war takes institutional form in two beasts. The first rises from the sea with features gathered from Daniel's empires and receives power, a throne, and authority from the dragon. A healed mortal wound produces amazement that becomes worship. The beast boasts, blasphemes, and wages war against the saints for a strictly limited forty-two months. A second beast looks lamb-like but speaks like the dragon, using signs, an animated image, threatened death, and economic exclusion to direct worship toward the first. The Book of Revelation makes allegiance the center of the chapter. The mark controls buying and selling, while the number 666 is tied to the beast's name and calls for wisdom rather than speculative certainty. The chapter presents counterfeit authority, counterfeit resurrection-like recovery, counterfeit signs, and coerced worship, all operating with power repeatedly described as given rather than ultimate.

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Revelation 14: The Lamb's company and the earth's harvest

Chapter 14 answers the beast's mark with the Father's name on the foreheads of a redeemed company standing with the Lamb on Sion. Their song, truthfulness, and following of the Lamb form a direct contrast with the deception and coerced worship of chapter 13. Three angels then announce a worldwide call to honor the Creator, Babylon's fall, and the severe judgment associated with worship of the beast and receipt of its mark. A blessing on those who die in the Lord interrupts the warnings with the promise of rest. The chapter closes with two harvest scenes. The first shows a crowned figure like the Son of man reaping a ripe earth without explicitly naming the crop's fate. The second is unmistakably judgment: ripe grapes are cast into the winepress of God's wrath. The Book of Revelation lets the two harvests stand with both their similarities and their important differences.

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